I said it in our team thread, but his motor was the most impressive thing. I've never seen Ware play with that type of intensity play to play for a full game, even with as many sacks as he gets.

As awesome as Ware is, his success as a pass rusher stems a lot more from his athleticism and pass rush moves as opposed to Smith's complete lack of pass rush moves outside of "I'm going straight through this guy in front of me" so its understandable that Ware would never look like hes giving the same kind of effort, hes just using different strategies.

As awesome as Ware is, his success as a pass rusher stems a lot more from his athleticism and pass rush moves as opposed to Smith's complete lack of pass rush moves outside of "I'm going straight through this guy in front of me" so its understandable that Ware would never look like hes giving the same kind of effort, hes just using different strategies.

I'm going with Watt b/c I think the Texans are getting zero credit. Games are won in the trenches and they have big talent on both sides. He'll have the best post season as they make their way through Baltimore and Foxborough to get into the SB.

I love Ryan Kerrigan but damn I wish we kept the 10th pick and selected JJ Watt. The kid is a monster and will only get better.

I wish you would have, too.

First, your team allows my team to move up for Gabbert. And then they destroy Adrian Peterson's knee. How many franchises must Washington be allowed to ruin before we, as NFL fans, stand up and stop them?

Honestly, most of the fans in here and around the USA (outside of the SF market) really haven't seen much of Justin Smith this season or ever because the Niners were bad til this year.

Watt was great again today. Two big games for the pizza-delivery man. Not his fault they lost.

Anyone who chose him wins too because his playoffs were All-Pro level.

He was just as good as a 4-3 DE in Cincinnati, the difference is that our defenses always sucked and nobody seemed to care about his individual performance. Even in '05 when were a play off team, he played pretty well for a really a bad defense.

At the time that he left, he was coming off a low sack season in which it felt like we needed to blow up the defense and restart anyways so it didn't seem like much of a loss. However, looking back now - I wish we had someone as consistent as Smith on our d-line (or entire defense for that matter).